About Book
This text provides a comprehensive, balanced account of traditional optics, as well as many of the recent developments in the field. Designed to meet the optics course requirements for undergraduate students of science and engineering, Optics is also an excellent reference source for practicing engineers wanting to obtain a greater understanding of optics. In preparing the 5th edition of the book, many topics in Chapters 14, 18, 22, 23, 26, 27 and 28 have been rewritten and many new diagrams have also been introduced. In addition, a section on Special Theory of Relativity has been added. Many new colored photographs in the preliminary pages have also been added which should help clarify important concepts in the field.
Content
1. History of Optics | Part: 5 Electromagnetic Chapter of Light |
2. What is Light? | 22. Polarization and Double Refraction |
23. Electromagnetic Waves | |
Part: 1 Geometrical Optics | 24. Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves |
3. Fermat’s Principle and Its Applications | |
4. Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces | Part: 6 Photons |
5. The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics | 25. The Particle Nature of Radiation |
6. Aberrations | |
Part: 7 Lasers & Fiber Optics | |
Part: 2 Vibrations and Waves | 26. Lasers: An Introduction |
7. Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index | 27. Fiber Optics I: Basic Concepts and Ray Optics Considerations |
8. Fourier Series and Applications | 28. Fiber Optics II: Basic Waveguide Theory and Concept of Modes |
9. The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms | 29. Fiber Optics III: Single Mode Fibers |
10. Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion | |
11. Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation | Part: 8 Special Theory of Relativity |
12. Huygens’ Principle and Its Applications | 30. Special Theory of Relativity I: Time Dilation and Length Contraction |
31. Special Theory of Relativity II: The Mass-Energy Relation | |
Part: 3 Interference | 32. Special Theory of Relativity III: Lorentz transformations |
13. Superposition of Waves | |
14. Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront | |
15. Interference by Division of Amplitude | |
16. Multiple Beam Interferometers | |
17. Coherence Part: 4 Diffraction | |
18. Fraunhofer Diffraction I | |
19. Fraunhofer Diffraction II and Fourier Optics | |
20. Frensel Diffraction | |
21. Holography |